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Tourist Spot Attractions In Comines-Warneton

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Vanuxeem Brewery SA

Plugstreet 14-18 Experience

European Flight Simulator

Musee de la Rubanerie Cominoise

St Symphorien Military Cemetery

The Ploegsteert Memorial

Christmas Truce Memorial

Pairi Daiza

Ice Mountain Adventure Park

Comines-Warneton is a Belgian city and municipality in the Walloon province of Hainaut. On January 1, 2006, it had a total population of 17,562. Its total area is 61.09 km2 which gives a population density of 287 inhabitants per square kilometre . The name Comines is believed to have a Celtic, or Gaulish, origin. Comines-Warneton is a municipality with language facilities for Dutch-speakers. The municipality of Comines-Warneton includes the traditional villages of Comines , Comines-ten-Brielen, Houthem, Warneton , Bas-Warneton , Ploegsteert and Le Bizet. They were all transferred in 1963 from the arrondissement of Ypres in the Dutch-speaking province o...
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Tourist Spot Attractions In Comines-Warneton

1. St Symphorien Military Cemetery Mons
The St Symphorien Military Cemetery is a First World War Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground in Saint-Symphorien, Belgium. It contains the graves of 284 German and 229 Commonwealth soldiers, principally those killed during the Battle of Mons. The cemetery was established by the German Army on land donated by Jean Houzeau de Lehaie. It was initially designed as a woodland cemetery before being redesigned by William Harrison Cowlishaw after the Imperial War Graves Commission took over maintenance of the cemetery after the war. Notable Commonwealth burials in the cemetery include John Parr and George Lawrence Price, traditionally believed to be the first and last Commonwealth soldiers killed in action during the First World War, and Maurice Dease, the first posthumous recipient o...
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2. Christmas Truce Memorial Comines Warneton
The Christmas truce was a series of widespread but unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front of World War I around Christmas 1914. The Christmas truce occurred during the relatively early period of the war . Hostilities had entered somewhat of a lull as leadership on both sides reconsidered their strategies following the stalemate of the Race to the Sea and the indecisive result of the First Battle of Ypres. In the week leading up to the 25th, French, German, and British soldiers crossed trenches to exchange seasonal greetings and talk. In some areas, men from both sides ventured into no man's land on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to mingle and exchange food and souvenirs. There were joint burial ceremonies and prisoner swaps, while several meetings ended in carol-singing. Men played...
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3. Grand Place Tournai
This is a list of events held and scheduled by the K-1, a kickboxing promotion based in Hong Kong. The first event, K-1 Sanctuary I, took place on March 30, 1993 at Kōrakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.
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Furgonnal Európában - Soignies, Belgium - 2016.05.05.

Furgonnal Európában - Soignies, Belgium - 2016.05.05.

Carnaval de Comines 2013

Carnaval de Comines 2013
il manque 1 mm de son à 9mm07 la chanson Chihuahua a été supprimée par youtube à cause des droits d'auteur ......

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